i got a guy. who? the drive-thru guy at dunkin'. everybody's got that guy. hurry in for dunkin's tuna salad and new tuna melt sandwiches. america runs on dunkin'. >> good morning. welcome to "11 news saturday morning." i'm jennifer franciotti. >> and i'm lisa robinson. first john collins is here. no complintse complaints the

last couple of days. >> we need rain. 65 degrees at b.w.i. marshall. fairly low reading. the barometer has jumped a little bit. details ahead. stick around. >> our big story this morning, new information about the disappearance of an american woman in aruba.

>> kai reed has details. >> f.b.i. experts spent hours investigating the home of gatesburg resident gary giordano. he may have been the last person to see giordano alive. he reportedly said they were snuggling when she went missing. authorities no longer believe she is still alive. if she was, she would have come forward by now. >> we have his story that he was snorkling, and he was in the

procession of snorkling gear, but no one had seen them snorkling. >> he is scheduled to appear before a judge monday who could release him if he decides there is a lack of evidence. meanwhile, police are reviewing giordano's rental car. >> she told me to live every day like it's your last. >> robyn's brother describes her as a kind person and he believes she's still alive. >> my gut instinct is she is still out there. >> kai reed, www.wbaltv.com. >> a magistrate granted officer daniel red's release. after prioritization intervene, a federal judge ordered him back to jail. he is accused of selling drugs, and in some cases on police property. for now he will stay in jail until his trial date. red was assigned to the

northwest district. >> testimony resumes on monday in the trial of a man accused of murdering a johns hopkins researcher. yesterday jurors heard information on blood and d.n.a. evidence. >> senators heard more about the blood and d.n.a. evidence during the testimony friday in the trial of a man accuse of killing johns hopkins researcher. stephen pitcairn, 23 -- martin testified that wagner and merrit

left the parm and were gone for about an hour. he said he did not ask where they had been because, quote, not none of my business. then police arrived, searched his apartment, and took him and the others in for questioning. martin said he knew nothing about the murder that happened. point prosecution is staying his statements were inconsistent with the statement he made the next day. they say he dismantled a black folding knife with a three-inch blade found during the investigation. several stains tested positive for blood. a shoe also tested positive for blood. that shoe, prioritization believe, belonged to wagner.

>> as beloved as william donald schaefer was during his life, there were also those who wanted him dead. there were threats on the late leader's life. police believe those threats came from inside city hall, although no suspect was ever named. a man in pits bug threatened to shoot schaefer. no one was charged there. in 1990, a man sent to jail after a threat to shoot schaefer arrived at the state park. >> mimi lee is the wife of former governor blair lead and died of heart failure on tuesday. she was a research chemist before marrying in 1944. lee became acting governor.

lee occupied the governor's office until 1979. mrs. lee was 91 years old. >> some analysts believe the worst is over on wall street. the wildest week ended with a day of gains. the week has been marked by see-saw trading leaving many wondering if next week will be volatile. here's krist -- kristen dahlgren. >> after a week of wild market week, the dow jones industrials getting creamed, the market soaring on wall street today. >> just another bloodbath today. >> the dow climbed again headed toward its first two-day winning streak in more than a month. bolstered by a report showing

consumers spending more on cars, auto, gasoline, and back-to- school supplies. >> when you see the numbers in retail that we see it allows us to take pause and say, wait a main. maybe the stock market isn't the only economic indicator. >> caterpillar's c.e.o. >> if you read the headlines, it has been one thing. if you look at our core business and the day-to-day sales and what i hear from customers and around the world, it is steady as she goes. >> in fact, caterpillar has hired over 1,000 americans in the past six weeks. but a survey of consumer sentiment fell last week to a 30-year low. no surprise with the record whiplash on wall street. >> i am worried about the stocks i bought that were supposed to be worth a lot of money. now they are worthless. >> i don't see retirement for

us. i think we'll have long, long years of working. >> while the week of chaos may have ended on an up, the uncertainty is unlikely to go away any time soon. >> president obama's health care reform receives another legal blow yesterday -- blow. yesterday the court said the law violates individual rights. georgia is the 27th straight to reject the law. the white house says congress is within its right to regulate commerce and the health care industry. experts believe the debate will make its way to the u.s. stream court. >> the race for the white house picks up this weekend for republican candidates. while many are in iowa, another big-named compeat is set to officially join them. 11 news reporter steve handelsman has more on how the candidates are working overtime to bring in votes.

>> conservatives gather in ames, iowa, before the straw poll. michelle bachman implied she'll win. >> tomorrow is the day we make the downpayment on taking the country back. >> iowa state has been ready getting ready for the all day vote. >> sarah palin says if she runs it would be sexist to run that her opponent would be bachman. >> if i'm going to duke it out, i'm going to duke it out with a guy. >> we do some things in texas that frankly are working. >> there are some things folks in washington could look to

texas and get some good influence from. >> he could get the momentum going better than tim polente can or mit romney can. >> he needs a place in the straw poll. >> he has to do well in order to stay alive. >> mitt romney was in new hampshire. the g.o.p. national front-runner is skipping the traw poll. in an unconventional move to try to win the nomination, even to try to win the iowa caucusses as early as next year without winning the straw poll. from ames, iowa, i'm steve handelsman, nbc news. >> the time is 6:11. 6 degrees on tv hill. -- 62 degrees on tv hill. >> coming up, "consumer alert." >> and the u.s. army chorus is preparing for their big summer

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>> a warning again this morning.

the only difference a few clouds have been terroristing in. mostly a high, thin variety. thin cloudiness. isolated showers in virginia. closer to home, isolated shower. a couple of sprinkles, and north of cumberland, out in western, maryland, there is a thundershower now up flare the pennsylvania turnpike between cumberland and the turn bike out there. -- turnpike out there. an indication there is not much activity now, but it will be picking up during the day today. more on that in a minute. brightening up outside considerably in the past 30 minutes or so. 65 at b.w.i. marshall. humidity for the moment is down. it will be rising today. the barometer has been fairly steady. 30.05 the latest reading. the winds are calm. the moon is just past setting at

this stage of the game. sunrise is just a way -- some of those thin clouds and that big, bright moon obscured the sky a little bit. it might have been tough to see them with all that business going up in the sky. overnight tonight and tomorrow, we expect rain and clouds. i hope you got a chance to see it, if that interests you. annapolis 63. elkton 63. westminster 66. 50's to around 60. the green shades dominate, and that's the 60's near the bay. bay water temperatures up around 80. so on the beach area there along the shore. temperatures around 70 or low 70's. satellite image combined with the radar. there's that isolated shower north of come berland.

a couple other spots near camebridge. more activities. stronger storms up in michigan and out in arkansas as well. high pressure will be drifting east allowing more moisture and stormy weather to come in. the boundary between our nice air and the really tropical stuff is still hung up to the south of us. a lot of that moisture will be coming up during the day today. out in the tropics, franklin marginal. it is moving away from any land masses. it is to the northeast of mood mood. a couple other drop cal ways forecasters are watching out in the atlantic as well. our forecast. we'll see increasing clouds. nice this morning into early this afternoon. thunderstorm chances developing. 83 to 88 the highs. insta-weather futurecast. watch the timeline here as we get toward afternoon.

rain chances begin to increase ocean city's forecast, higher rain chances sunday and monday with high temperatures around . seven-day forecast. >> i couldn't if i needed to. >> change a tire. >> coming up. >> and a shoe store. >> i'm kim dacey. details next.

>> the time is 6:20. in this morning's consumer alert, some bad news. almost two million light bulbs are being recalled because the globe is falling out of the socket. phillips lighting is recalling millions of flore he isent d -- flourescent dimmable lamps. go to www.wbaltv.com and click on "consumer" for the complete name. >> good year says it has come up with the tire that says it inflates itself. the tire measures its own pressure, and if it gets low, it pumps up while it rolls along. everything that makes the tire work is in the tire. no word on when this new tire

will hit the market or how much it will cost you. >> credit unions want to spend more money. they are asking for a credit union that will help them lend to businesses. right now they can only lend 25% of their assets. they want to raise that to 27.5% with an additional $13 billion for small businesses. >> next week is tax-free shopping. it is what one area is counting on as it opens a new location in towson. >> 6-year-old isabella has a yump on her shopping with -- jump on her shopping with cool new shoes. >> getting ready for school was the push behind this week's opening of the new "rack room shoes" in towson. starting sunday you get extra savings, 6%, thanks to maryland's tocx-free shopping

week. >> what are you expecting? >> a mass crowd. >> when it comes to shoes, think color, especially for athletic shoes where color and lightweight is where it is at. >> we have light and color. >> leather, any material you want. swayed. >> for the younger set, think light-up tennies >> it is all about quafment the more pressure i have, the better it is. >> older boys seem to veer more toward name brand. and for the -- >> the camouflage. you have the light-up. >> the sale runs to the 50th. it is not just for the kids. >> clothes for me, too. >> this mom might have the best plan for getting her shopping done. >> i'm going to go home, and i'm

going to go school hopping. >> wouldn't it be great if tax-free applied to everything? unfortunately it doesn't. only to clothing and footwear, $100 or less. >> happy shopping. >> if you ever wondered how you look in a -- an outfit, there is a site called gotryiton.com. so far a quarter of a mill people have downloaded the app and there have been 10 million comments. don't go away. first, a look at events going on around town this weekend.

the presidential salute, it is going to have something for everyone. >> the group is usually away from home bringing the stories of -- all over the country. >> the nice way about it, it is an informal setting. the kids can run around and play. there are snowcone vendors.

it is really a fun, fun family event for all ages. people can bring out a blanket or lawn chairs or sit and have a beautiful evening under the stars. >> the concert starts at 7:00 in the evening. for more information, find a link on our website at www.wbaltv.com. >> the time is 6:29. 52 degrees on tv hill. >> coming up, residents return to their home after a gas leak. >> we'll tell you what caused that leak. >> i'm rob roblin. new technology to enhance privacy. >> that story coming up. >> we had nice weather this morning. stormy weather headed out this way. we'll talk about when coming up. the insta-weather plus forecast.

>> welcome back to "11 news saturday morning." thanks for joining us. swr let's take another look outside with john. >> you go through all that hot stuff we had at end of june and july, and you look for this break. then you say, when will the other shoe drop. >> this weekend. >> not the heat and humidity part, but we're going to get

some rain. really rain is not a bad thing in august. so often we're dry and hot and brown. >> why on a weekend? >> i know. >> let's talk about right now. high, thin clouds. we are beginning to see indications. a few of the clouds want to produce a few sprinkles. a few outbreaks. sprinkles and isolated shower activity north of come berland. right on the pennsylvania turnpike there is isolated thundershower now. it is all isolated, kind of spotty. we'll see more widespread rains coming into the picture later tonight. >> john, thank you. >> a new security camera at b.w. i. they eliminate embarrassing screening photos that do allow

staff to keep security tight. rob roblin explains. passengers at baltimore get ready for new technology. this is designed to enhance passenger privacy. >> in the past when a passenger walked through security their image was looked at by t.s.a. agents at an undisclosed location. >> look forward and stay still, please. >> with a new technology, the images on the monitor on a walk-through machine, and there is no image of you anymore. it is a stick figure. >> if there is something on your person, you forgot something in your pocket, there will be a generic outline of a human body, same outline for all passengers. what will be unique, it will say where the powsention item is. >> the new technology detects potential threat items and the

-- and where it is on a person. airport officials are glad to have it here. >> if you think last thanksgiving we almost had a passenger revolt around the country over the technology. what they have done is figured a way to make it a stick figure. they also brought it out from the back room to right where the -- they see what the person is looking at. >> while the new technology enhances privacy for passengers, it still meets top security standards. >> the number one focus is to meet security requirements, this machine does that, but at the same time we are looking for ways to balance privacy with security responsibilities. this machine is the next step toward doing that even better. >> if the machine doesn't detect anything on a passenger, it simply says ok. rob roblin, wbal-tv 11 news. >> residents have returned

overwhelm after a gas leak. a 16-year-old driver accidentally drove into a garage damaging a gas meter yesterday. all the surrounding townhomes were declared safe except for the home where the gas leak occurred. >> u.s. naval academy pleebs have a big weekend ahead of them. >> coming up, what has them leaving the academy grounds for the first time in six weeks. >> what's number one? >> number one is the quality of classroom instruction. >> harford county superintendent talks about back-to-cool priorities. i'm to the to the. coming up. >> the weather is nice. stormy weather on the way. the fluss plus just ahead.

>> spotty activity beginning to pop up now. a couple sprinkles or quick shower. a little isolated thunderstorm right over the pennsylvania turnpike north of cumberland, maryland, right on the crestline there. there is some isolated activity also in southern, southwestern virginia, as well. we'll see more of that starting to pop up later today. most of the day should be fairly dry here until mid afternoon or so. let's take a look at the current situation outside. heavily filtered sunshine. humidity reasonably low at 78%. we will notice more humidity today than we have had the past couple days. the barometer has been bumping around 30.05 and 30.04 this

morning. that will begin to fall as the high pressure that's given us the great weather during the past couple days begins to slide east and salows more marginal weather to move in. right now in annapolis it is 63. 68 in camebridge. 65 on the boardwalk. chester it is down 67. 68 westminster. frederick 61. frostburg right now. so we have moisture beginning to come in from the south and we have weather systems out from the west of us beginning to push clouds into this high pressure. the high pressure is on the way out. the highest pressure is just kind of reevolving out over the atlantic. that will allow this other stuff out to the west and south of us to slip in. we notice big storms in the upper midwest, great lakes, and down in arkansas. and again, all of it is kind of drifting in this direction. the wound ritren the -- the boundary between the tropical sticky air and around us will

develop so we'll get more humidity in the atmosphere. in the tropics themselves, we have a marginal storm. franklin moving away from land masses northeast of bermuda. we have a couple tropical waves that forecasters are watching in the atlantic as well. our forecast locally here increasing clouds. thunderstorms developing. 83 to 88 the high clouds. futurecast shows by noon or 1:00 we pick up more cloudiness. later in the afternoon or evening isolated storm activity becomes widespread overnight. in could be heavy rains over the next inch, inch and a half. ocean city's forecast perhaps an isolated storm today. most of the day things should be dry. sunday and monday rain chances go up at the beach. the insta-weather plus forecast. rain chances increasing today and tonight. high sunday, tapering off on sunday.

tuesday and wednesday look dry, and temperatures will be nice. nothing extreme here. we don't get near 90. >> in this morning's education alert, it won't be long before 10s of thousands of maryland students will be back in the classroom. this morning 11 news education reporter tim tooten travels to harford county. >> this is a beautiful building. >> this is the newest elementary school built to relieve overcrowding. >> a new building says so many things. a new building says in harford county we are progressive, we are meeting the needs of students. we are providing fine ed cagal facilities, and -- fine educational facilities. >> what's number one?

>> number one is the quality of classroom instruction. we can look at study after study, look at initiative after initiative and what it comes down to is that if there is one single component that la -- that will ensure a student's success in school under the control of the school it is the quality of the teacher in the classroom. >> an important place is the media center. >> it is, and as you see, it was set up for classroom instruction. >> the buck stops with you. >> lots of bucks stop with me in terms of funding for the school system. we're great. >> the economy, nothing was off-limits. i'm sure the school system wasn't either. >> as we said during our budget formulation time, our priority was to effect the classroom last and least. we really did a fair amount of slashing in all areas but the classroom. >> we heard, it's coming, now

it's finally hear. >> we've seen a slight up-tick in school enrollment. the moves are pretty much finished. what we're looking at now is the expansion of work on the installation and with the many, many contractors that have moved to the area, we have some very heavy hitters that have moved into harford county. it will be a boon to the economy of harford county, but it also sends us the message that we must prepare our students for careers that will be enormously lucrative, and that's what we're doing. >> in harford county, tim tooten, wbal-tv 11 news. >> after six long weeks, finally a taste of freedom for pleebs at the u.s. naval academy. it is parents' weekend in annapolis. that marks the first fime - please stand by - s are allowed to leave the academy grounds. proud family members drove in and flew in from all over the country, including an academy

graduate himself. >> he looks great. he's acclimated well to the program. i think he used the word "fun" a few times, which is a great thing. i think he's getting through the program pretty well. >> also visiting the naval academy the u.s.s. hurricane. visited part of a training mission. the ship will also be open for tours. >> i think that should be your name "the hurricane." you're like a cyclone. >> whoa, you don't want her to come out, do you? >> stay with us. here's a -- coming up "11 fitness." first a look at last night's winning lottery numbers.

>> good morning. it is time for "11 fitness" and candace grasso is joining us. you are getting questions from people on your website. these are interested. "when trying to get rid of pounds, what is the most important thing to count?" >> let's say you and i are going to the grocery store and it tells us there is so much --

many cashes -- so many carbs and proteens. >> the first thing i see is calories. >> ta-dah! >> i just guessed. >> we did a survey. we had so much misinformation out there. we found out most americans will tell you that's about the fourth thing they will look at when looking at a food label is calories. they will check the sugar grams. if you watch that you will lose weight. that's not really true. they look at fiber. they will look at how many carbs, because carbs are vilified. lettuce is a cash hydrate. you want to look at the calorie amount. if it is a reasonable calorie for a big enough serving then i will look down at things that

matter like saturated fat, like sugar grams, like sodium. first you have to say, calories in, calories out. >> calories first. >> so food labels. this morphed floo the next question. food labels can be confusing. >> after you look at the amount persevering, what seems like a reasonable amount you are going to eat and not go, great, where is my food now? so you have a good amount. then you do want, after that, too look at the things like the fat grams. you want them to be not saturated and under a couple. you are looking for nonsaturated fats. you are looking for no transfats. >> you don't want something 210 calories but 16 grams of if the. >> and sugar grams, here's the thing to watch. if the carbohydrates are 20, but sugar grams are ompe half that amount. so in it is 20 carbs but 15

sugar, that is a concentrated sweet. even though the calories are good, i'm going to put it back. >> what about eating ca. -- what about eating carbs at night. >> she was concerned if she did that, she would gain weight. and really, it doesn't matter as long as you are not eating junk. my blog, candas -- canned as -- >> www.fitisit.com. please stay with us. john has another look at your weekend forecast when we come back. first a look at what's coming up on the "today" show. >> coming up today the ames straw poll. nine republicans on the ballot

in a contest. plus, on the road to recovery. she was the victim of a brutal chimp attack. surgery has made her literally a new woman. coming up, we will here from charla's daughter and her doctor on her stunning recovery. >> after winning -- the judge ordered caylee anthony to return to florida to serve her probation sentence. >> and a large, curious creature of the deep caught on tape. we will meet the curious photographer when lester and i see you here on "today."

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like musical instruments. ♪ and new art supplies. ♪ because they're the only cereals with box tops for education. last year, schools earned over ten million dollars from big g cereals. you can raise money for your kids' school. look for this logo... only on big g cereals. you can make a difference. every cereal box counts. >> ravens return to practice yesterday with with a new pick p. evans. they know about this guy firsthand. he tore up the ravens secondary a year ago at m&t stadium scoring three touchdowns, a reception, and almost led the bills to a big upset over the ravens.

the addition of ravens gives the ravens the needed experience to compliment anquon. now they have two vets at the wide receiver spot. ravens came over from philadelphia. pitta playing well. a hamstring injury. picked up the extra workload. showed he could handle it. hops on the team. the time for potential has end. the time for production has arrived. pitta made sure he created an early impression. >> it opened up a lot of opportunity for me to play and saturday early.

i want to show what i can bring to the offense and show my abilities, and what better way to start it than with a catch like that. >> they open with another agonizing loss. 5-4 the final score. orlsors got off to a good start. bottom of the fourth, j.j. hardy. orlsors shortstop continues. his season as the most exciting and dependable oriole this year. a 4-4 tie. jackson gives the tigers a one-run lead. then it is jackson in the eighth who holds on to that one-run lead. it looked like adam jones was tied with a solo home run to center field. jackson retretting to the track. the wall. he pulls it down with a leaping grab to center field. o as had a runner on third.

celebrating. ends it. the series starts with the orioles losing 5-4. i'm can -- gerry sandusky. hope your weekend is off to fantastic start. >> >> between memorial day and labor day, there is nothing like maryland blue crabs. the scent of the spices sit in the air. now the air is tense between maryland crabbers and officials fr from the maryland department of natural resources.

at times they can ply their trade. regulators want to protect the chesapeake bay and the crab populations for the future. while numbers are sketchy from catch reports, officials think 53 million pounds were harvested but millions more were left. watermen cannot continue the decade-long tradition and how officials will ensure there is a crab population to harvest for years to come. the battle is so pin tense that factions of the watermen are battling reach other. some are not even participating in the heated debate. with long-term discussion necessary both sides will need to come together on ways to preserve the industry and the bay. it will not happen unless everyone comes to the available everyone comes to the available willing to work together.